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Thursday, January 21, 2016

With no more crossovers or other big events in the mix, the Wednesday crime drama strength shifted somewhat from NBC back to CBS. Law and Order: SVU (1.7) and Chicago PD (1.5) were both down significantly for NBC, while Criminal Minds (2.0) held onto last week's season high and Code Black (1.4) had a nice rebound. On a year-to-year basis, they're all doing pretty well but SVU is the big winner (as it had just a 1.3 against Empire on the year-ago evening).

At 8/7c, The Mysteries of Laura held last week's 1.2 while 2 Broke Girls and Mike and Molly had a third straight week at 1.7/1.6.

ABC's 8/7c hour continued a rather soft winter against CBS comedy competition, with The Middle (1.8) potentially headed for a new season low and The Goldbergs (2.0) not far off. At 9:30, Black-ish (1.7) was down two tenths as its lead-in Modern Family went into repeats (1.6). American Crime (1.0) dropped a tenth for the second straight week at 10/9c (but is still about on par with Nashville's timeslot average).

On Fox, Second Chance (1.0) didn't do much with its second chance, taking a typical post-premiere drop that still leaves it in bad shape. American Idol inched down to 2.4.

The CW was back in originals with a slightly above-average return from Arrow (1.1) and a barely below-average one from Supernatural (0.7).

FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

A18-49

Skew

Last%

Last#

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

The Middle

1.8

32%

-5%

-0.1

n/a

13/13

-5%

+38%

The Goldbergs

2.0

41%

+0%

+0.0

-0.1

9/13

+0%

+54%

Modern Family (R)

1.6

35%

-41%

+7%

Black-ish

1.7

38%

-11%

-0.2

-1.1

11/13

-11%

+55%

American Crime

1.0

34%

-9%

-0.1

-0.2

3/3

-9%

+100%

ABC:

-15%

+47%

2 Broke Girls

1.7

32%

+0%

+0.0

n/a

1/8

-23%

+0%

+13%

Mike and Molly

1.7

31%

+6%

+0.1

+0.0

1/3

-19%

+6%

+13%

Criminal Minds

2.0

27%

+0%

+0.0

+0.1

1/12

+0%

+0%

+0%

Code Black

1.4

24%

+17%

+0.2

+0.0

3/13

+17%

-7%

CBS:

+5%

+2%

The Mysteries of Laura

1.2

22%

+0%

+0.0

n/a

1/11

+0%

+50%

Law and Order: SVU

1.7

31%

-15%

-0.3

+0.0

5/11

+31%

-15%

+31%

Chicago PD

1.5

29%

-25%

-0.5

-0.3

5/11

+0%

-25%

+0%

NBC:

-15%

+22%

American Idol Wed

2.4

33%

-4%

-0.1

n/a

3/3

-29%

-4%

-29%

Second Chance

1.0

34%

-17%

-0.2

-0.1

2/2

-17%

-77%

Fox:

-8%

-56%

Arrow

1.1

49%

+10%

+0.1

n/a

2/10

+0%

+175%

+0%

Supernatural

0.7

49%

+0%

+0.0

+0.1

5/10

-22%

+75%

+40%

CW:

+125%

+13%

Big5:

-1%

-15%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.